It isn't unavoidable, don't fire the damn missiles from the Drone.
The US and UK are like a little kid who fucks with a hornets nest, gets stung and retaliates by getting a flamethrower.
It isn't unavoidable, don't fire the damn missiles from the Drone.
The US and UK are like a little kid who fucks with a hornets nest, gets stung and retaliates by getting a flamethrower.
(Very Very hypothetically) Russia annexes half of western Europe and starts massing troops on the border and deploying landing craft then you can open fire.
It's not very realistic purely because of the way the world currently works, as Von Clausewitz said "War is the continuation of diplomacy by other means" and it shouldn't be.
Fortunately weaponized lasers are coming. Those should succeed in reducing collateral damage almost entirely. All that needs fixing after that is the often-faulty intelligence, and weeding out gung-ho idiot drone operators.
If that is true, then it's not "could have", it's "almost definitely will".